The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 5

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Page 76From him Gainsborough learned something of the French Rococo idiom, which
had a considerable influence on the development of his style. In 1746 in London
he married Margaret Burr, the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Beaufort.

Page 2525, 1754, London), architect whose synthesis of most directly his Italian Baroque influence. He soon became the foremost Tory architect. Private houses that he
built, or in which he had a hand, number at least 50. After the 1720s the Baroque
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Page 2611248, Medinaceli, Castile, Spain — d. c. 1305, Peflafiel), major Spanish Kabbalist
whose writings influenced those of Moses de Leon, presumed author of the
Zohar ("Book of Splendour"), an important work of Jewish mysticism. Gikatilla's
early ...